Validation testing of software processes may provide both qualitative and quantitative suggestions to understand the ways to change the software process to improve its quality, or the ways to achieve speci®c organisation's needs. In many cases, however, such understanding has to be done without a€ecting the actual environment. To this purpose, this paper introduces the use of process simulators...

The efficiency of current cargo screening processes at sea and air ports is largely unknown as few benchmarks exists against which they could be measured. Some manufacturers provide benchmarks for individual sensors but we found no benchmarks that take a holistic view of the overall screening procedures and no benchmarks that take operator variability into account. Just adding up resources and ...

A new two-dimensional multilayer process simulator based on finite element method has been developed to accuratly study advanced silicon technologies. The basic processing steps simulation are presented and numerical problems arising from the multilayer structures are outlined. Finally, the capabilities of the program are demonstrated with the simulation of a self-aligned polysilicon bipolar tr...

Alaska Simulator Toolset (AST) is a software suite developed at the University of Innsbruck for exploring different approaches to business process flexibility by using a familiar metaphor, i.e., travel planning and execution. For this, AST provides integrated support of several decision deferral based approaches to process flexibility and enables their systematic comparison. Moreover, AST facil...